Technology enabled care services are currently going through a significant period of change due to the digital switchover of telecommunications networks in the UK. This has major implications for alarm-based telecare, as existing analogue products and platforms are not optimised for use with these new fully digital (IP-based) networks. As legacy analogue telecare products are […]

In our previous article, we presented a landscape review of technology-enabled care (TEC) in the UK. It described five generations of TEC that began with basic reactive alarm services for risk management, and which have evolved into a data-led approach, enabling proactive and predictive models of support that can provide timely and context-aware interventions. We […]